Two upcoming events on May 3 (that do not overlap)
First event:
Please join us for a screening of Bon-Uta: A Song From Home followed by a discussion with the associate producer, Ai Iwane, and a taiko drumming concert by Ahiru Daiko, UO’s taiko drumming group. The film tells the true story of evacuees from Futabata in Fukushima. Unable to return to their hometown because of the ongoing disaster of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, residents are scattered throughout the country and mourn the loss not only of their community but of their traditions, such as the Futaba Bon-Uta, a festival musical performance they have celebrated for centuries. Through an introduction by the photographer Ai Iwane, they meet a Japanese American Taiko group and learn of a similar Bon-Uta tradition performed by Japanese Americans living in Hawaii. Thus begins a journey through space and time, a journey that brings discovery, friendships, and new hope
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO3kwnlIqPU
The guest speaker will be talking to my class before the screening about the film but also about the photographs she took with an old 360-degree camera. I think she will bring some of these photos with her. If any of your photography students want to come to my class to hear her, we have open seats.
Gerlinger 302, Wednesday May 3rd, 2:00-3:20.
More on her photograph here: http://www.aiiwane.com/
Qs: Rachel DiNitto (rdinitto@uoregon.edu)
Second event (reminder):
Please join us for a lecture by Dr. Petra Čeferin on Wednesday, May 3.
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ARCHITECTURE FOR ALL: THE WORK OF JOŽE PLEČNIK
Dr. Petra Čeferin,
Univ. of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Wed. May 3, 5:30 pm, Lawrence 115
This lecture will focus on the work of Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik and his interventions in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana. In 2021, Plečnik’s work in Ljubljana was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. The purpose of the lecture is to point to the very contemporary character of his work –to that dimension of his work that is well worth continuing today. Plečnik’s central project was to construct architecture in the world, to materalize it from case to case, from task to task. This is also what guided him in his constructions of public space, space open to all and in which architecture has the potential to reach everyone. In this sense Plečnik insisted on constructing an architecture for all, and thus – in one of the central achievements of his work –in opening up for all the possibility that pursuing architecture as a creative thinking practice offers: that we might activate our capacities for independent thinking and action.
Petra Čeferin is an architect and professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana. She teaches courses on architectural theory and history, specializing in modern and contemporary architecture. Her current work focuses on the issue of the structural logic of architecture as a creative thinking practice. Her publications include Constructing a Legend: The International Exhibitions of Finnish Architecture 1957–1967 (2003), Transforming Reality with Architecture: Finnish Case (2008), Architectural Epicentres: Inventing Architecture, Intervening in Reality (2008/co-editor with C. Požar), Project Architecture: Creative Practice in the Time of Global Capitalism (2010/co-editor with J. Bickert and C. Požar), and The Resistant Object of Architecture. A Lacanian perspective (2021). Petra Čeferin is the co-founder and editor of the book series Theoretical Practice of Architecture. She is a past recipient of The Annual Bruno Zevi Award.